From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why all the Alt bindings by default? Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:07:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83r51zaxhg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6F1ADCC148584A4A80CF9FF727BE1915@us.oracle.com> <67D259D03C5D4CEEB3735689FE31215A@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319688474 21193 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2011 04:07:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:07:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 06:07:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJHFt-0007WZ-Fi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:07:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47986 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJHFs-0002aX-NW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49687) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJHFp-0002aE-Sr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJHFo-000086-IC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:07:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:57904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJHFo-000080-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LTP00400HT09600@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:07:15 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.212.197]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LTP004V6I428V10@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:07:15 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145621 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:35:47 +1100 > From: Tim Cross > Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > One question I do have - what happens if you do have a keyboard that > is setup to have both meta and alt (as well as super and hypa) and you > want to do a real alt binding using one of these keys? Are you saying that you can actually get these "bindings" to work? That is, if you press Alt-R, you get the registered trademark? Because that's not what happens to me. In my case, Emacs says "A-R is undefined".